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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2025
Filed:
May. 04, 2022
Discern Science International, Inc., Tucson, AZ (US);
Judee Burgoon, Tucson, AZ (US);
Douglas Derrick, Omaha, NE (US);
Aaron Elkins, San Diego, CA (US);
John David Mackstaller, Tucson, AZ (US);
Jay Nunamaker, Tucson, AZ (US);
Discern Science International, Inc., Tucson, AZ (US);
Abstract
A distributed discernment system that includes discernment server including a processer running a diagnostic program and server interface permitting communications to and from the discernment server where the discernment system communicates with two or more human interface devices, where each human interface device includes display capable of presenting a video segment of a virtual human interviewer asking a question to an interviewee and sensors capable of detecting various responses of a human interviewee to each presented question where the discernment server includes a diagnostic that generates interview instructions to be provided to a plurality of human interface devices over the communications network, wherein the instructions provided to a given human interface device are intended to cause the human interface device to present certain questions to a human interviewee interacting with the device and wherein the discernment server is adapted to receive data from each of a plurality of the human interface devices and analyze such data to provide an assessment of the state of the human interviewee interacting with the human interface device.